Improvement in washing-machines



ARA PAINE.

.Improvement in Washing Machines.

Noi. 122,331'. Y

z'gl Pgtented JaniZ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

ARA PAINE, OF BURRILLVILLE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,331, dated January 2, 1872.

ful Improvement in Machinery for Washing Clothes 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a top view; and Fig. 2, a lon gitudinal section; and` Fig. 3, a transverse section of my improved washing-machine.

In such drawing, A denotes a rectangular tub, having within it a movable carriage, B, provided with supporting-wheels to enable it to be moved longitudinally on the bottom of the tub, or in metallic rails ae arranged therein parallel to each other. This carriage B carries a series of rollers, C C C, arranged over it and between two cheeks, b b, erected on or making part of the said carriage, each roller being pivoted in the cheeks or so supported as to be capable of freely revolving transversely. Directly over the carriage is a tinted roller, D, iixed upon a shaft, E, provided with a crank, F. This tinted roller is to be constructed so as 4 to engage with the series of rollers beneath it riage and its set of rollers to have a reciprocating rectilinear motion within the tub. The boxes or bearings c c', in which the shaft E is supported, are to be movable vertically, and provided with springs d d. for pressing them downward. These springs are arranged within the posts e e (which sustain the said boxes) and around rods f f extending down from a f cross-bar, g, resting on the tops of the springs. A screw, h, going down through the middle of the bar g and being screwed into a nut, i, (iixed to a cross-bar, k, extended from one part, e, to the other, as shown,) serves to regulate the pressure of the springs on' the boxes.

Ii' we suppose the tub to besupplied with water impregnated with soap, and an article of clothing or bed-linen is to be washed, we have only to place the article on the rollers of the movable carriage and to give such carriage a reciprocating rectilinear motion. The clothes, by such a mode' of operation, will soon be washed.

In the above-described machine I claim as' i my invention as follows:

The movable carnage B and its series of rollers C and the uted roller D, constructed and arranged together and with the tub A, substantially in manner and so as to operate as de- 

